11.  Who are the minor prose writers of the Elizabethan Age?  What did they write?  Comment upon any work of theirs which you have read.  What is the literary value of North’s Plutarch?  What is the chief defect in Elizabethan prose as a whole?  What is meant by euphuism?  Explain why Elizabethan poetry is superior to the prose.

CHRONOLOGY
Last Half of the Sixteenth and First Half of the Seventeenth Centuries
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HISTORY | LITERATURE
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1558.  Elizabeth (d. 1603) | 1559.  John Knox in Edinburgh
| 1562(?).  Gammer Gurton’s Needle.
| Gorboduc
| 1564.  Birth of Shakespeare
1571.  Rise of English Puritans | 1576.  First Theater 1577.  Drake’s Voyage around the | 1579.  Spenser’s Shepherd’s Calendar. 
World | Lyly’s Euphues.  North’s Plutarch.
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| 1587.  Shakespeare in London.  Marlowe’s
| Tamburlaine
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1588.  Defeat of the Armada |
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| 1590.  Spenser’s Faery Queen.  Sidney’s
| Arcadia
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| 1590-1595.  Shakespeare’s Early Plays
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| 1597-1625.  Bacon’s Essays
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| 1598-1614.  Chapman’s Homer
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| 1598.  Ben Jonson’s Every Man in His
| Humour
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| 1600-1607.  Shakespeare’s Tragedies
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1603.  James I (d. 1625) |
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1604.  Divine Right of Kings | 1605.  Bacon’s Advancement of Learning
proclaimed |
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1607.  Settlement at Jamestown, | 1608.  Birth of Milton
Virginia |
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| 1611.  Translation (King James Version)
| of Bible
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| 1614.  Raleigh’s History
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| 1616.  Death of Shakespeare
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1620.  Pilgrim Fathers at | 1620-1642.  Shakespeare’s successors. 
Plymouth | End of drama
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| 1620.  Bacon’s Novum Organum
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| 1622.  First regular newspaper, The
| Weekly News
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1625.  Charles I | 1626.  Death of Bacon
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CHAPTER VII

THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660)

I. HISTORICAL SUMMARY

THE PURITAN MOVEMENT.  In its broadest sense the Puritan movement may be regarded as a second and greater Renaissance, a rebirth of the moral nature of man following the intellectual awakening of Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.  In Italy, whose influence had been uppermost in Elizabethan literature, the Renaissance had been essentially pagan and sensuous.  It had hardly touched the moral